You can put a browser like Safari or Chrome into the background on iOS without closing your tabs. Will they keep refreshing themselves and send out personal details like your IP address?
What about ...

My girlfriend watched "some" pages on her iPhone and facebook.you-won.com page appeared. She didn't know how to get rid of that JavaScript alert, so she clicked OK. After that she closed the page, and ...

If a photo is taken using an iPhone, the image file can carry date, time and location information. If this original image is then screen shot, would this original information be copied with the screen ...

I am starting a new job, and I have the choice to receive a phone from the company, or bring my own phone. I am considering using my own phone, to avoid having an extra device, but I want to better ...

Suppose I, as an iPhone owner, have enabled Control Center access from the Lock Screen, and I have enabled the GPS features, to be able to trace the phone should it be stolen.
Why did Apple engineers ...

In regards to the default Mail app on iOS 8, setup with various mail accounts gmail, outlook etc.
Are emails sent/received to/from the phone securely, if so, how?
Can someone who is snooping on the ...

I found this at github: https://github.com/AnwarMohamed/meterpreter-darwin
Does anybody know if this works on a non-jailbroken Iphone?
I downloaded it on my and double-clicked on the Makefile-icon, ...

Hi everyone I am interested in how a banking app works, especially the way it handles https requests. So I installed one, set my proxy settings, started burp suite and expected it to work. As you may ...

My old cell phone number had made lots of calls I am not familiar with. I was confronted with a list of calls I know I did not call. I was also told that I was using Skype. I have never used skype, ...

In an iPhone app that utilizes plain text (unencrypted) XML as the contents of its http POST requests over https to the app server; how would someone be able to discover the "format" of the plain text ...

Suppose I work for a bank and am asked to write an NFC payment app for the iPhone 6 or Android but not use Apple Pay. To simply send the credit card details to the reader via NFC.
Now assume I'm not ...

my devices and my network have been compromised. I foolishly left my router unprotected
and they were able to gain access to all my apple devices and then install some sort of software that will take ...

I have a friend (X) who hacked the whatsapp account of someone (Y) using iphone. He told me that he sent a packet to the iphone of Y that appears as a normal whatsapp message but now he can see all ...

I recently got a call from our network admin asking that I stop the app updates on my iPhone to open up bandwidth. It is my personal phone. My question is 2 part:
Out of all of the personal devices ...

I was wondering how secure Touch ID/Keychain is really. My understanding is that iPhone 5S devices that use Touch ID allow you to enter a passcode if your fingerprint doesn't work, as a "fallback". ...

I am an admin of an immigration forum. Security is my job One and protecting our members's info is my highest priority. Recently, I discover that there are 3 members who have posted from the same IP ...

With their iOS devices, Apple allows people to block certain applications through "Restrictions". I recently had an issue with my iPhone where I'm positive that I entered the correct passcode on my ...

Last week I was told by our security department that my PC (running windows 7) was infected by a trojan and that it needed to be re-imaged. So re-imaged it was! Given the fact that I had been using ...

How do I mount my iphone to look at it's files forensically? I have FTK Imager (the only free program I could find) but it doesnt mount it as a drive and I can't seem to take a forensic image of the ...

The title pretty much says it. Do the security patches to address the gotofail security issue in multiple Apple products employing SSL change the User Agent string for the respective systems? And, of ...

A mate pulled a quality prank on me the other day by sending me a SMS via a Spoofed number. He's bought a SMS gateway and can set the message ID/phone number to be 'God' (or whatever he wants(letters ...

I've been considering the security of the iPhone 5S fingerprint feature. My main concern is, not that someone could replicate my fingerprint in the physical world and bypass the phone, however that ...

Recently I logged on to my bank account via the Chase app on my iPhone. I received a message that another device was currently logged on to my account and "would I like to end the session"? Of course, ...